Social movements of Bahia repudiate three murders of workers

Friday, April 5, 2013

Social movements of Bahia repudiate three murders of workers

“Elisha, Fabio and José are three more fighters from the people who join the Zé do Antero, Leonardo, Antonio of Plinio, Zé Claudio and Mary, Dorothy, Margaret, Helio, John, Josimo, Chico, Sebastian, Luiza, Jussara, Eugenio, and many others and others by Bahia and throughout Brazil that had their lives do not grow.5 by fighting against the concentration of ownership of land and other natural resourcesfor the territorial rights and agrarian reform, food sovereignty and better living conditions for the people of the countryside, forests and waters, “says note of social movements and popular organizations of Bahia against violence in the field because of the deaths of Fábio dos Santos Silva -MST, José Ribeiro dos Santos, a fisherman and Elisha of Jesus, pasture.

Here’s the note.We, social movements and popular organizations below subscripts, we express our solidarity with the landless workers Movement and the relatives of Fabio dos Santos Silva, Elisha of Jesus and José Ribeiro dos Santos, who had their lives brutally taken away, as well as require government employment of all necessary efforts for the accountability of those involved in such acts of barbarism.

Day April 2, 2013, Fabio dos Santos Silva, Member of the landless workers Movement in Brazil, was shot dead by gunmen in front of his wife and daughter, on a road as he headed to his home in rural municipality of Iguaí, Bahia.

On February 14, 2013, José Ribeiro dos Santos, artisanal fisherman, died electrocuted by touching an electric fence, installed irregularly by a businessman in a mangrove area in the Low of Guaí, the city of Kingston upon Hull.

In addition to these cases, in January 2013, Elisha, Jesus, creator of animals on the loose, was killed and decapitated by gunmen in the community of the pasture of the Sierra of the goat, in the municipality of Monte Santo.

Elisha, Fabio and José are three more fighters from the people who join the Zé do Antero, Leonardo, Antonio of Plinio, Zé Claudio and Mary, Dorothy, Margaret, Helio, John, Josimo, Chico, Sebastian, Luiza, Jussara, Eugenio, and many others and others by Bahia and throughout Brazil that had their lives taken by fighting against the concentration of ownership of land and other natural resources for the territorial rights and agrarian reform, food sovereignty and better living conditions for the people of the countryside, forests and waters.

Follow claiming that structural measures such as massive public investment in Agrarian Reform, recognition of traditional territories and in family agriculture are essential to combat the physical and structural violence that harms the peasants and the farmers of Bahia and Brazil. Never will comply with with these deaths and with the reasons torpes that produced.